Sorry for the delay in getting this report out.
I spent the entire day again in King George and Westmoreland Counties, seeing
108 species, including 23 warbler spp and 2 firsts for my northern neck list. I
started at the ponds along route 3 near Sealston in King George, then went to
Wilmont Rd and Wilmont Landing (Toby's Point part of Rappahannock River valley
NWR), then to Washington's Birthplace and Westmoreland State Park, and finished
off as usual at a couple private properties in Leedstown.
Highlights included ...
--a drake blue-winged teal in Leedstown
--a pair of drake lesser scaups at Aggregate pond (route 3)
--4 singing bobwhites (Birthplace, Wilmont Rd, Leedstown)
--shorebirds, mostly in Leedstown, day-totals of 7 spotted sandpipers, 10
solitary sandpipers, 2 greater yellowlegs, 2 lesser yellowlegs, and 21 Least
Sandpipers)
--all the terns and almost all the gulls must be away at breeding colonies (saw
only 4 ring-billeds all day)
--my first yellow-billed cuckoos of the year
--finished the day with all three species of goatsuckers: 2 nighthawks foraging
at dusk in Leedstown, and 1 each of chuck-wills-widow and whip-poor-will
singing along Winter Harbor Rd near Oak Grove as I drove home.
--a Philadelphia Vireo along LaGrange Lane off of route 3 near Sealston where
there was also a male Wilsons Warbler (my first on NNK); and two
yellow-throated warblers gathering insects to bring back to their nestlings
--the bank swallow numbers here (LaGrange) have decreased dramatically since a
couple of years ago. I saw only 8 here.
--more cedar waxwings than I have had in a day all year (115 in 5 locations)
--Blackpoll Warblers everywhere (42); I saw only 1 female.
--Cerulean (my first for NNK), Wilsons, Blackburnian, Bay-breasted,
Prothonotary, Magnolia, and other warblers at Toby's Pt.
--lots of grasshopper sparrows (12), blue grosbeaks (12), indigo buntings (42),
Tanagers (10 Summer, 12 Scarlet), and Orchard Orioles (19).
--485 Bobolinks, only 45 of which were male, in Leedstown (450) and Birthplace
(35) in fields of uncut hay and wheat.
--1 Swamp Sparrow in Leedstown
I hope you have a great week!
Fred
Frederick D. Atwood fredatwood@xxxxxxxxx
Flint Hill School, 10409 Academic Dr, Oakton, VA 22124
703-242-1675
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